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Magic EdTech

Product Operations Manager

🇺🇸 Boston, MA

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $75K - $120K

💻 Operations

🗓️ April 8th, 2025

SCRUM Smartsheet

Edtech.com's Summary

Magic Edtech is hiring a Product Operations Manager. The role involves leading the team through cross-functional collaborations to launch a new platform product, ensuring close coordination between clients and development teams from ideation to release. Responsibilities include supporting product management by documenting requirements, facilitating communication across teams, and supporting user acceptance testing. 

Highlights
  • Main responsibility: Support client's product management and technology teams.
  • Technical skills: Agile, Scrum, JIRA, Yodiz, Slack, MPP, Smartsheet.
  • Compensation: $75K to $120K.
  • Experience: 8+ years in the field; minimum 3 years in technical product management.
  • Contract duration: Approximately 7 months, with potential renewal.
  • Responsibilities include managing communication workflows and project documentation.
  • Engage with offshore teams and multiple vendors effectively.
  • Essential qualifications: Strong communication, organization skills, and familiarity with Agile/Scrum.

Product Operations Manager Full Description

Product Operations Manager
The Product Manager will help lead the team working cross-functionally to bring a new product (platform) to market. He / She will ensure that the Client and development teams work together closely to bring the product from ideation through all phases to release.

Experience Range
  • 8+ years
Salary Range
  • $75K to $120K
Location
  • Boston area
Mode
  • Contract full-time
  • Duration ca. 7 months, but could be renewed
  • Work full-time at the Client’s location

Role/Job Description
  • Primary responsibility is to support Client’s Product Manager and Head of Technology by collecting and transmitting requirements, user stories, documentation, etc., for a major platform project
  • Work with Offshore Agile team located in India to ensure clear communication, good documentation of requirements and user stories being done and placed
  • Create effective communication workflows using standard tools such as Slack, Jira / Yodiz (Agile Project Management tool), etc.
  • Ensure communication and facilitation across design, client, engineering, and product teams
  • Work with multiple vendors on project
  • Support UAT with Acceptance Criteria and reporting back to development team on fixes needed
  • Serve as a key expert to the whole team, and maintain an up-to-date centralized repository of information about the product to drive visibility and alignment
  • Relieve the Client’s Product Manager and Head of Technology of as much of the administrative burden as possible

Qualifications/Experience/Background
  • Minimum three years of experience in Technical Product Management
  • Familiarity with elementary education a plus
  • Skilled at communicating across multiple teams and varying levels of stakeholders
  • Experience with cross functional collaboration and negotiation
  • Hyper-organized and capable of juggling multiple tasks
  • Experience working with Agile/Scrum teams
  • Comfortable in using Planning tools like, MPP, Smartsheet, or similar tools
  • Experience using Agile Project management tools, like, JIRA, Yodiz etc.